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Postscript

The “Questions For” column on Page 15 this weekend quotes Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who recently switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, as saying that the courts in Minnesota still have time to “do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.” Former Senator Coleman, a Republican, is contesting the results of a protracted recount of last November’s election that show a narrow victory by his Democratic challenger, Al Franken. Senator Specter “conclusively misspoke,” he admitted to Congressional Quarterly after The Times article became available online on Tuesday, explaining, “In the swirl of moving from one caucus to another, I have to get used to my new teammates.”

A version of this postscript appears in print on , on Page A2 of the New York edition with the headline: Postscript. Today's Paper|Subscribe